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Robertson Auditorium Presentations

Opening Keynote – Jameson Hsu, CEO, Mochi Media
Panel: 4 keys to a successful social game
Panel: Money [...]

When we invited the Flash games community to take a Flash Games Market Survey last July, we were seriously impressed by the huge participation levels that we received from the community.  The goal of the survey was to compile the first study ever on what the Flash games market and industry looks like. We [...]

Thanks again to Will Hankinson for permission to post an insightful post-mortem on Plastic Attack, part of Mochi Media’s Batman: Brave and the Bold casting call. He also wrote a great post-mortem on his game Filler earlier this year. – Ada

Winners for the Batman: Brave and the Bold game contest were announced back in [...]

We released our first game, Now Boarding, a little over a year ago. I’ve been putting off writing a post-mortem on it for a while, because I’ve been busy. However, I recently resolved to write down more of what we’ve learned, and then Ada Chen from Mochi asked if I would be willing to [...]

Are you trying to make flash games for a living, but having a hard time making ends meet? Have you made an engaging & fun game, then spent months polishing and tweaking it to perfection before releasing it onto the world? Maybe you got it right and it’s a hit – it’s been played [...]

Geoffrey Zatkin, president and COO of Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR), gave an interesting talk about what strategic questions developers should ask themselves before diving into game development. While I don’t believe that this is 100% relevant to the Flash games market, it did raise some interesting questions for me on how smaller [...]

I spent the past weekend at Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. It was a fantastic, packed event and definitely felt more like a gamer convention than a developer convention. The gamer enthusiasm ran the gamut from complex D&D games featuring 20-sided dice, card games like Magic, to XBLA games and hardcore console games. This [...]

Panayoti from Urbansquall rejoins us for a postmortem analysis on the release of the engaging action puzzler, Robo Riot. He walks us through an analysis of what his learnings, successes and regrets in retrospect after releasing the game. Read on for more! – Ada
Robo Riot is different from the usual sort of project [...]

Dissecting and Relabeling the Genre
So outside of Flash Game Friday posts, it’s pretty apparent that I have an unhealthy obsession with the Dress-Up Game genre. After some pondering and walking around the streets of San Francisco, I came upon the conclusion that made the most sense to me. The reason I like [...]

I discovered my favorite type of game development project when I had the opportunity to work on three different game banners this last year. I don’t mean those awful flashing advertisements claiming you can win an Xbox if you hit the monkey with a banana. I’m talking about replacements for the static headers we [...]